One step from being Vintage

From Mark Rosewater's blog:

"I spent years trying. I don’t think it’s going away." Are there any actions that we as players could take to help change minds and get the Reserved List abolished?

I can’t go into details, but I think you all will be mentally happier if you accept that it’s not going to change.

 [Highlighting is mine for emphasis]

 I've written about the lack player health of Legacy before. I still believe Legacy is a step away, or less, from being Vintage in that it is hyper local, and driven by allowing players to use proxies. There are no real Vintage sanctioned events other than on-line. Take a look at MtGtop8, 95% of the events are on-line only. I don't know about you, but I am not investing in cardboard to play a game. Not to the tune of $5,000 for a single piece. While an awesome piece of Magic, I have no desire. Oh, and you need MANY pieces of very expensive cardboard to make a deck. Good luck folks.

An interesting point:  "What if you could print 100% functional rally cars, indistinguishable from "real" rally cars, and compete in real rally races, but for a few pennies?"

 It makes you think- whats the difference in this case? Same as the game Magic to be honest. Skill, understanding, passion, and a willingness to play the game. Sure it'd be nice to have every single card available to you in the game, but part of that game is to limit resources and force you to know yourself and the other.  Its a weird mind screw to be sure. 

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I still believe it will take some sort of fresh from getting their MBA, 30 year old from Hasbro management to basically say the following: "What do you mean we have a HUGE list of cards we can't print? We need cash baby and we will sell them, oh man will we sell them. Players will go nuts! Spending huge globs of cash for bits of cardboard. We don't even need to invent new sets for them. We will just throw them in some retro set and call it Ultra-Mega-Amazing Masters!"

The other half of the equation is that Hasbro needs money and WoTC is the only company that makes them money on a regular basis. To help keep the company from folding, they tap in to this natural resource and milk it for all its worth so the company doesn't go up. 

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Taken from MTGstocks

Interestingly, in the blog entry I wrote in August of 2020, revised Plateaus were $175.  They are now about $345 according to market TCG. Doubled in a year. Jebus. 

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 Since my summer vacation, high water mark for playing Arena way too much... I haven't been playing too be honest. I used all the gold and gems on Jumpstart historic. Meh. 

I backed away from Historic. Just doesn't feel good to me right now. I did find a cracker of a Historic Brawl deck. Been slamming away with that for fun.

I did get back into drafting and had a good week, pulling in 4.5 wins per quick draft. That felt kinda good. 

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Been trading a fair bit via DeckBox, 20 completed trades in two months. Got many things I wanted. Need 1 more Urza's Saga to complete the playset. Feels good to get un-needed/wanted cardboard out the door for stuff I might use. That includes a Boo token for my daughter. 

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Soooooo- for the first time since I got back into Magic, Battle for Zendikar, I didn't get a pre-release kit. I thought I would miss the experience, but nope. I do look forward to attending them in the future, but this set means nothing to me, and well- meh.